Re: Design principles and ethics

[Bas Wijnen]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 01:35:20PM -0600, Christopher Nelson wrote:
> > > If I wrote a program that I wished to keep for myself, I might encode
> > > into it a way to make sure that only I am running it.  If someone then
> > > steals my private program, what is essentially my property, they can
> > > benefit from it without my consent.  You are enabling theft without
> > > repercussion.
> > 
> > If you keep it to yourself, only you have access to it 
> > anyways. I don't see a problem here.
> 
> Then please re-read the message.  The program is *STOLEN* from me.  That
> is a problem.

So how did this "theft" (which I don't agree it is, but anyway) happen?  And
why do you think a confined constructor is capable of preventing it?

Thanks,
Bas

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